Fuel consumption, lower emissions and lesser weight clubbed with decent amount of power are very crucial factors for an engine. British car maker Jaguar Land Rover’s answer to that is “Ingenium”, the new family of premium diesel and petrol engines designed, engineered and manufactured by Jaguar Land Rover, that the company claims, delivers class-leading levels of torque, horsepower and refinement while reducing emissions and fuel consumption.
The company revealed more of the technical details of these new lightweight, compact low-emissions modular engines as it showcased some of the company’s future technologies.
Ingenium’s design brief presented Jaguar Land Rover’s engineers with a tough and complex challenge. Its new engine family would need to be:
- Configurable and flexible to enable seamless installation in a range of new Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles
- Scalable up and down to create smaller or larger displacement variants in the future
- Able to accommodate a range of powertrain layouts including rear-, all- and four-wheel drive
- Engineered to support manual and automatic transmissions as well as electrified hybrid drive systems
- Easily accepting of new advances in engine technologies as they become available
Jaguar Land Rover powertrain engineers at the company’s Whitley and Gaydon development facilities have based Ingenium’s foundation on extremely strong and compact aluminium blocks for both diesel and petrol versions.
These lightweight blocks share the same bore, stroke, cylinder spacing and 500cc cylinder capacity. This helps give Ingenium the configurability and flexibility around which smaller or larger engines can quickly and efficiently be developed to meet future regulatory and competitive requirements. To support the development of this future powertrain technology, including the new Ingenium family, Jaguar Land Rover has invested £40 million to expand and enhance its Powertrain Engineering facility at its Whitley Technical Centre.
All diesel and petrol Ingenium variants will be equipped with turbochargers that improve performance, particularly at low speeds, and that help reduce consumption and CO2 emissions.
Ingenium’s design enables both petrol and diesel engines to share many common internal components and calibration strategies. This reduces complexity, raises quality and simplifies manufacturing, and allows Jaguar Land Rover to react more quickly to changes in global demand.
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